SC2Mapster

Unlocks? Like units that only become available when you've played enough, done something, or payed something?

That still doesn't explain why you're breaking backwards compatibility. Losing data is a serious bug, not a coding convenience.

On the topic of security: currently it's possible to backup your ratings/etc data and restore it to erase loses. I've been accused of this a few times, which is frustrating. There IS something you can do to prevent this from happening:

• Give each player a random id, large enough to make collisions unlikely.
• Store the outcomes of the ~25 most recent games
• Store the last-seen stats of the ~10 most 'interesting' players (by highest score, recently played, etc)
• When a game starts, check for prior information about each player. If it is inconsistent, you've identified tampering with the save file. For example, if player 1's data indicates they beat player 2 five matches ago but player 2's data omits this lose (player 1 recorded player 2's stats so can check this fact) then either player 2 has restored/tampered with data or player 1 has tampered with their data to create false data about player 2.

The basic idea is to spread players' rating information a bit. This puts some of the information outside of what a single player can backup and restore. It forces them to tamper with data or avoid particular players.

I don't want to imply this is simple. It's not. Getting it right is very hard, because you MUST consider the possibility of players creating tampered data to frame other players OR data being lost due to a disconnect OR a bug introducing inconsistencies.

What? Why?

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If you made 'normal' the slow-game-speed version of hyper the issue would be resolved (at least in terms of differences).

There are actually a couple of things that don't scale right with hyper. Tower cooldowns are an obvious one, but there are also subtle differences like ultra vs templar becoming more favored towards ultralisks (maybe the templar pre-cast animation time is not scaled?).

Any way to make roaches' health regen proportionate to the speed of aggro? Your unit is across the map before the 5 second regen delay is up.

No, I don't recall. Sorry. I'll keep my eye open.

I know I've brought this up before and you said it wasn't possible, but I've noticed other custom maps that have auto arranged teams based on ranking (Star Battle). In that map, the lobby host is able to choose to keep the default 6on6 or put everyone on 12 separate "teams" which are then arranged in game based on rating. No idea how this works behind the scenes but I was wondering if it could work for BC.

I thought I noticed the same thing as Strilanc. However, I noticed today that I lost points even after staying in a game until the Victory! prompt. I don't recall the circumstances of who had or had not left the game prior to that. Both my ally and I were still in the game, though.

I keep losing points even though I'm not losing.

Does it count as a loss if you leave during the round extension?

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I kind of like that idea.

Leave now if you don't want to continue playing
20 seconds remaining
[Quit]

@Strilanc: Go

Easy fix I believe would just to make it extend by default. 10 seconds is enough.

Rounds aren't being extended anymore. The voting dialog needs to be center screen and last more than 10 seconds. People who want to continue will wait, people who don't will leave.

A couple glitches:

• When my ally leaves before a round ends and I win, the continue round dialog says they will be the sole winner.
• You can kill your ally's pylon with the things that pop out of the purple sentries. They can be controlled.

Also:

• High armor sentries are still hilariously fun.

Word up Ry.

Very Interesting changes....very interesting........